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appointment to the headquarters staff of the 1st Iowa Cavalry,
and the attitude of the civilian population of Little Rock, Ark.
Also contains a sketch of Union and Confederate positions before
Chattanooga and a field map of northern Alabama and Georgia.
Finding aid available.
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Hubbard Family
Papers, 1639-1925. ca. 7,500 items.
Contains the correspondence and papers of Robert Henry
McCurdy (1800-1880). Includes material relating to the activities
of the Union Defense Committee in New York, the Southern
Relief Committee, the New England Soldiers Relief Association,
and various other patriotic and benevolent organizations.
Also contains a few letters and documents found by
McCurdy in the Senate chambers of the defunct C.S. Government
on Apr. 20,1865, a "Map of a part of the City of Richmond
showing the burnt Districts," McCurdy's account of a meeting
with President Lincoln, July 11, 1862, a memorandum outlining
the composition and strength of Gen. Franz Sigel's XI Corps,
Army of the Potomac, on Oct. 10, 1862, and miscellaneous
items concerning naval affairs, Gen. Louis Blenker, and the
organization, supply, condition, and disposition of New York
troops.
Finding aid available.
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Hudson, George A. 100th Illinois Volunteers
Collection, 1863-65. 20 items.
Letters from Hudson to his family written during campaigns
in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, Apr. 1863-Apr.
1865. Contains remarks on camp life, training, discipline, foraging
expeditions, marches, desertions, casualties, morale, devastation
in the South, the Presidential election of 1864, the
attitude of Union soldiers toward blacks, the suffering of
noncombatants, and reaction in the South to Lincoln's assassination.
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Hudson, William Leverreth (1794-1862) USN
Papers, 1821-74. ca. 350 items.
Includes correspondence and notes concerning the sale,
purchase, and repair of vessels for the U.S. Navy, drawing of
the U.S.S. Water Witch, plans for the construction and improvement
of gunboats, and miscellaneous items.
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